So let me get this straight. Darth Vader (Annikin Skywalker) never knew of Luke’s existence because he was kept hidden on Annikin’s home planet of Tattoine with Annikin’s step-brother Owen Lars under the name “Skywalker”. And just a short distance from Luke lived from one of the last living Jedi, Obiwan Kenobi, who cleverly concealed [...]
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I’m not sure why I watched Riverworld all the way through, but I did. Tamoh Penikett gave another solid performance, though I have to say his character is pretty much the same as in BSG and Dollhouse. Mark Deklin was entertaining as Samuel Clemens, and I was pleasantly surprised to see a former classmate — [...]
Unexplained shadow… a ghost caught on camera?
Posted: 31st October 2009 by Cubey in Entertainment, RLAfter hearing sounds coming from an empty room upstairs for a couple of nights running, I decided to set up my night-vision cam in hopes of catching it. Maybe an animal was getting in through the fireplace, I thought. Instead I captured something inexplicable. Keep your eye on the shadows just behind the arm chair. [...]
Early preview: a quick demo of the Stingray’s abilities
Posted: 30th May 2009 by Cubey in Creations, Entertainment, SLEven though the design of the Stingray amphibious plane is still in its early stages, I am already working on things like automating transitions between air, ground, and water. My goal is to make the transition so effortless that it will seem like the plane anticipates which mode you want.
In this short video, I demonstrate [...]
As I edge my NaNoWriMo word count a little higher every day, I find myself wishing for a time machine, so that I could just pop forward three weeks, nab a copy of my finished work, come back and paste it all into my word processor. Unfortunately, that would of course create a paradox that [...]
Any MSTie knows that “SoL” means “Satellite of Love” — the home of Joel and/or Mike and the bots. Now you can find them in BlaksleeWorld, where the Satellite of Love has landed at the feet of gigantic statues of Tom and Crow (if they had feet, that is).
For deep hurting, drop by for several [...]
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Being the sci-fi geek I am, I recently watched the entire Star Wars series on DVD. Again. And it struck me that George Lucas has a penchant for severed limbs. Seriously, in almost every movie, at least one character loses a hand or limb.
I don’t think that I’m being OCD about this, because most other [...]
The web, the wasp, and the metaverse
Posted: 8th April 2007 by Cubey in Entertainment, RL, SL, Tech, WritingCast your mind back, if you will, into the murky past of the Internet. Think back to before the Y2K scare. Back, before the dot-com days. Back, before the Browser Wars. Back, to a time when Babbage’s computing machine was powered by steam, and monkeys were routinely hired to operate it.
Hold on. No, we’ve gone [...]
3ASE launches 3rd Annual Sattelite Exhibition
Posted: 18th March 2007 by Cubey in Entertainment, News, SL, TechScripter extraordinaire, Timeless Prototype, has launched the 3rd Annual Sattelite Exhibition, featuring “useful, interesting or fun autonomous scripted objects”. In past years, this event has been full of cool gadgets and tools that push the limits of scripting in Second Life.
The Cubey Terra “base” is located in the 3ASE 1 sim.
Although my forte is piloted [...]